Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 4

war Wil Figures of King Kuhnaten Found _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1023. e e In Se!)ulchre of Tutankhamen Miniatures Are Believed to Have Been| Worn by His Daughter, Queen of Latter thendon Times world m(xyn.ht By acrange- ment with the Earl of Caroarvon.) Ty Cable to The Star. LUXOR, Egypt, February 15,—There was considerable animation in the neighborhood of and within Tutanlk- hamen’s tomb yesterday morning. The day was glorious, with a perfect blue sky and no wind, but the daily grow- ing heat of the sun is beginning to make tho positlon at the parapet somewhat uncomfortable, and it is a veal rvelief to the patlent band of § watchers that their vigil, which has now lasted nearly two months, is ap- proaching an end. There was a big attendance yesterday. an unusually large number of hotel guests being suppiemented by the weekly cou- tingent brought by the tourist steam- ers. Tn this connection it was noticeable nhow the attraction the tomb consti- iutes has influenced the program of ihe dragomans, which somewhat resembled the laws of the Medes and Persians. Whereas hitherto the dragamans have persisted in dragging fares away to visit the tombs of the various kings. irrespec- iive of what at the moment might be Foing on at Tutankhamen's tomb, Vesterday they waited patiently at the parapet and sandwiched items of iheii own program between the im- vortant things removed. Lion Couch Removed. Yesterday's removals wers most in- ieresting. They comprised the lion couch, another funereal-like bouquet and wreath and miscellaneous odd- meonts.. The lion couch, like the Hathor and Typhon couches, came out in four parts, viz, the bed part, the two animal sides and the frame into which the animal feet fit, The first to be brought out was the hed portion. It was completely swath- bed portion. It was completely swath- fastened with safety pins to keep it in place. ke a wounded person, and the very careful manner in w. dled completed the iliusion. 1t had a foot rail like the other couches, the whole made of hardwood and completely covered with gilded bandaged be- cause of its fragility, but here and there between the lengths of cotton wool one caught the yellow giint where the rays of the sun touched the vich gllding. Sides Attract Attention. The two animal sides attracted enormous attention and evoked much enthusiastic comment. And well they might, for they are wonderful pieccs of workmanship. At one end is a & perbly molded lion's head, with m: d beautifully shaped var is long and curved on to in the case of the Hathor cou: e animal representation of each side fs completed two pairs of delicately formed legs with perfect lion's feet having pegs underneath to fit in the ne base of the couch, which is made of | bituminized wood. Each side has four ledges upon which the bed part rested, whilz down the (nside of each inner leg are two staples into which fit tongues attach- od underneath the bed. All the s Dles, tongues and ledges. in the cuse of the other couches, are of bronze, and fit as perfectly s when originally made. The whole of the animal bodies, which are made of wood, are covered with a heavy gilding, which is as- tonishingly freeh, and flashed in the sunshine just as it the work were yester: instead of 3,300 years ag Owlug to the shrinking of the gesso, the gold is falling off in parts, bu* that dld not detract from the beauti ful pature of th sch, which, bot in workmanship just as w couch, though | Shortly aiterward two trays were brought out. One bore another fu neral bouquet. exactly liko the first, brought out six weeks £go, being on a framework like modern With the leaves still intact and the stoms tightly bound together. On the were a small wreath in exactly modern wreaths, i most of the leaves had fallen, and another smaller bou- arious odds and ends. in- SJuding parts of a reed box similar to the one recently brought out. Statues Will Remain. This concluded the day's operations, and. in fact the removals from the antechamber, as at_present it is not intended to remove the statues, which alone remain, but to leave them there Hathor second tray Tor the opening of the inaer chamber. ! The work going on in the labora- tory is a constant voyage of discov- sry, with immense fascination in the fact that each new object discovered may be something guite unknown to ihe modern world and of the greatest historical value. The latest voyage has been the contents of the red box spoken of before. It is not large, being not wuch more than two feet long and one foot high. and, in a way char- aoteristio of the care with which all 1iie articles were originally prepared for deposit in the tomb. has on the inside of the lid a catalogus of the things It ought to contain. As a mat- ter of fact, while some things still colncide with the list, the robberles l.ave evidently resuited in the disap- has always 1t looked for all the world | iservation, is | bouguets, | into | Pharaoh. pearance of some articles and the ad- dition of many new ones. Variety Is Astonishing. All sorts cf things had been thrust Into it which do not belong to it, and it is astonishing what a variety ol contents the box now holde. There is a whole layer of small libation vases, similar to the large vase formerly de- scribed as being suggestive of a coffee pot with its spout. These, which are about six inches hig! are all in a charming violet-blue ade, some bearing Tutankhamen's cartouche, and are most attractive little things. In addition, there are several cups, not unlike those which were found in the cache of the royal mummies at Deirelbahari, which bear the name of Nesikhonsgu. more beautiful glaze, and are of the same attractive violet-blue as the theso and of other articles round there does not appear to have been a8 much sait impregnation here as In some other parts of the Theban necropolitan area. Khunaten Figures Foun Most interesting of all, however, are two figures similar in shape. One is of glass and appears from the style of the art and the form of the figure jto represent Khunaten, the heretic {king. = He is “chown crouching or squatting, with his knees up and his fingers in his mouth. The figure is about four inches high and was ap- ently intended as a pendant. It wds either broken in its early days or had a bad flaw round the neck and under the chin, for it has been most | carefully mended. { It is a fascinating little ornament, and we can lot our Imaginations play | with the idea that probably Khun- aten's daughter, Tutankhamen'’s wife, used to wear it till some day the string broke, and we can picture the solicitude with which she had re- paired and always cherlshed it The second figure {s similar in pos- ture and is made of fine limestone, s j delicately carved and of such beauti- ful stone as to make it difficult to believe it is not ivory. Miniature Head In Box. { In addition, the box contalus I miniature head and various article iapparently the king's clothing, i Woven tapestry material i Thera are several boxes yet | touched. some larger than this, | is Impossible to guess what tre ivet remain for discovery. has been made in former i dispatches of the so-called corselet. of which were found in various Some were found in th strine, the contents of which have jalready been described, and some j were found on the ground in the pas- | sage to the tomb as dropped by the ! robbers in their hasty exit. Most, | however, were found in this red box { The main fabric of this corselet {consists of small wedge-shaped or triangular plate, like links of gold, | a0 fastened together as to be quite flexible. like a chain of i This glittering background s ¥ ornamentation of bright blue or possibiv glass, with a bor- | der of Jifferent pattern. Figures Worked in Fabric. | In the portion found iIn the shrine | |are will have to be | wor and the whole {thing at present forms a most compli- jcated jig-saw puzzle. Mr. Mace holds I’!hé record for one of the most success- | ful works of reconstruction ever wc- jromplished fn having built up two beautiful inlaid bexes, now in the { Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New | York, from some thousands of minute | splinters of tvory and a fsw hand-: fuls of the tiniest bits of inlaying ma- | terlal. In this corgelet he has oppor- tunity of rivaling that performance. Another item of the contents of this hox is a bronze snake beautifully in- laid with gold, which was evidently part of some decorative scheme, as one has yet attempted what. Another is the round some vessel, perhaps a small jar or rge kohl pot, In faience with a de- ghtful polychrome design, cent of the finest Telle work. Jusitice §s sometimes speedily exe- cated in Egypt. Tuesday evening a boy in a dog cart drove into r John Mazwell, who was walking in roadway, as one must here. Appar ently the act was intentional, or any- how the boy made no effort to avoid ISic John, and drove on, though { snouted at. Probably he overlooked the fact that as his w { cart at Luxor, there was no trouble in {memuym; him. Sir John managed to keep his feet to guess to reminis- lamarna i | { il Hotel Roosevelt i 16th, V & W Sts. : ning Room Now Open ! Luncheon 12:30 to 1:30 Dinner 6:00 to 8:00 Table dHote and a la Carte service Muste Every Evenlng Finest Chamois —ski clean; “Handy Rub,” hand—that's where the trade name come: For dusting, clean- ing and polishing everything about the 25 c housc“... here needs a “Handy Rub.” House and Roof Pasnts HUGH REILLY CO. Wholesale—PAINTS—Retail n trimmings compose the ing and polishing part of the Made to fit the s in. Every housekeeper Priced at only 25c. 1334 New York Ave. These cups. however, seem finer, of | libation vases. From the condition of | un- | erlapped | Dpins behind it show that it was meant | to be fixed to something, though no| lid of | s the only dog | Breakfast 7:30 to 9:30 | and immedlately went to the'palice statlon. Yesterday = moroing - an examination of the boy took place, in the pregence of his family, befare {the mudir, who wentenced to b woll thrashed by his owr' father and { the father to pay {10, té i‘-lrl uted l:.thl poor In &ir Jghuw Max. me, b well's terday evening before the hotel the distribution was made to the huge delight of the poor, and the incident ;';‘zvh:;; regarded as closed, except for ROW OVER REBURIAL. “Desecration of Grave.” By Cable to The Star. LONDON, February 14.—Sir H. Rider Haggard. In a letter to the London Times, made the plea that the Pha- raohs Whose ‘mummies are brought to- light, Including that of Tutankh amen, should, after examination, pho. tography and modeling in wax, be buried ‘in the great pyramid and sealed there with concrete in such a tashion that only the destruction of the entire block of acres of solid stone again reveal them to the eyes of men. He proceeded: “The minor Pharaoh, Tutankhamen, i to be added to the long list of the more illustrious dug-outs. Presently he, too, may be stripped and, like the great Rameses and many another monarch very mighty in his day, laid half naked to rot in a glass case in the museum at Cairo, having first been photographed as he came from the embalmers’ bath and meanwhile made the butt of the merry jests of tourists of the buser sort, as 1 have heard with my own ears. Is It Decent?” this decent? Is it doing as we would be done by? Or, to put it more strongly, when we remember what was the faith of these men, Pharaohs or peasants, and that the disturbance of thelr tombs and bodies was the greatest horror by which they wei obsessed, Is it not an outrage and on: of the most unholy? Examine them, by all means. X-ray them, learn what we can of history from them. for instance, whether Tutankhamen died old or young. and of what dis- and whether he took to the with him any evidences of his| eas tomh UDGE Charles L. Brown of Philadel- phia declares that juve- nile delinquency may sometimes be due to de- fective vision that needs to be corrected by thc wearing of eyeglasses. Inattention in school may often be traced to poor eyesight. “See Etz and Se: Better” 42-40 Sevenh Cur Dress Special Taffeta Crepe Knit All-time Crepe Tricosham Straight H. Rider Haggard Protests Against | ™ Apostasy. but then' bide them away agsin forever, as we ourselves would be hidden away." Passages in Pyremid. Interviewed = subsequently on the subject, 8ir Rider Haggar 3 “Al\he\lth it is many yeirs since I was In the. great pyramid, 1 Know there are 'seeret' chambers nd - sages in which the remains. might perfectly well be buried and covered over with inforced concrete or some otl material. that could mot be tampered ",lliL h’rhon‘thay' wo:fl lle for nrobably thousands of ye: \ln"l’viha pyramid itselt crumbled “l?l ms to me that such a place would be a very fitting sepulcher. Considering that the great pyramid Was bullt by, Khufu the Great, who was the second king of the first dy- nasty, about 4000 B.C., to be his tomb. I can imagine no sepulcher that would be more fitting to receive the remains of the monarchs who filled the t?rona of Ep;m aftor him. Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie has given his opinion on the matter in an interview with the Westminster Gazette. He sald: Petrie Takes Issue, “I gee_no reason why the remains of the Pharaohg should be cemented up in the great pyramid so that no one -hnuli‘ see anything more of them. Besides. why spoil the great pyramid by blocking up one of the chambers? There ave only three of them. “It is no good sentimentalizing about the one hundredth of the r mains when the ninety-nine hun- dredths has been wrecked. 1t is not possible to find a single sepulcher that has not been raked out and plundered by the Egyptiana them- selves; even the tomb of Tutank- hamen, himself. was plundered, and it is to my mind doubtful as to what condition the body will be in when it is found, as the robbers penetrated even to the inmer chamber where it reats. “What I do say is that none of these remalns ought to leave Thebes under any condition, because they are very fragile. 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There ia plenty of limestone for bullding mear Thebes, and & museum should be built and all perishable material from there.” Prot, Petrie expressed the opinion that at Thebes the remains would last at least ten times as long as at Calre. “They would last as long, 3 :x" clvilization is lMkely to leave them one. uggested that & garrison of some Afty men or mare should be stationed at Thebes for the protection of the museum. ‘Would Protect King. William Leach, M. 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